Be Here Now!

20-21 January 2024 Saturday & Sunday Weekend Action Theater™ improvisation training contact: info*actiontheaterberlin.com more info…

The Audience As Predator

Stagefright/ Lampenfieber Workshop “You find yourself in front of an audience, believing that what you are doing is not interesting or doesn’t merit attention. Perhaps you begin to feel ashamed, or sad, or small. Precisely at that instant comes a great opportunity: you can empty out at that instant, you can see your judgment as…

NOW! Festival 2017 • About The Festival • English

An audience. An empty stage. No preconceived plans nor ideas. Sounds like chaos? Not at all. Instead you encounter the most skilled crafting of time and space by a group of highly qualified improvisers from all over the world. The 2017 NOW! Festival — Action Theater™ & Improvisation — brings its 5th year 2-7 May…

NOW! Festival 2017 • About The Festival • Deutsch

Publikum. Eine leere Bühne. Keine vorgefassten Pläne. Klingt nach Chaos? Ganz und gar nicht. Stattdessen begegnen Sie dem geschicktesten Fügen von Raum und Zeit durch eine Gruppe hochqualifizierter Improvisationskünstler aus aller Welt, die als Workshop-Leiter und als Performer agieren. Das NOW! Festival 2017 – Action Theater™ & Improvisation – bringt seine 5. Ausgabe vom 2.-7.…

Andrew Morrish • The Next One

Performance Sunday 7th of May | 20.00                                               The Next One Solo For me, a solo is a blank space waiting to be filled — nothing but amorphous potential. There are many ways to fill this space, many tools I could use.  Most of us tend to stuff it as full as possible. As the years…

Peter Trotman • Reset

Performance Sunday 7th of May | 20.00                                               Reset  • Peter Trotman Solo The nagging idea that we can walk away and begin afresh no matter how messy our world has become… Tickets Peter Trotman has been described as the black prince of improvisers because the tales he weaves are often darkly gothic and embedded in…

Kate Hilder • Untitled

Performance Sunday 7th of May | 20.00                                               Times Like This • Kate Hilder Solo My practice is to listen and respond to what is present: sensations, images, feelings and my environment.  My performances often involve a collection of different elements: movement, stories, memories, sound, songs and stillness.  The emotional tone usually takes priority over the narrative…

Duo Sauer | Schliemann • ThePureVoiceAndTheDifferentDrum

Performance Saturday 6th of May | 20.00                                               ThePureVoiceAndThe DifferentDrum  • Duo Sauer | Schliemann Duet w/ Silvia Suaer and Wolfgang Schliemann With voice and percussions the Duo Sauer | Schliemann draws a musical bow from crude archaic intensity to impressive musical delicacy. Their improvisational collaboration started 2013, also occasionally performing with Eiko Yamada (recorder) und…

Etoile Chaville & Julian Datta — Announced After

Performance Saturday 6th of May | 20.00                                               Announced After Duet w/ Etoile Chaville and Julian Datta In a given space-time-framework, our goal is to let a valid piece of art create itself. The content is not pre-planned. We want to let go of our ideas about the world, as well as of pre-conceived aesthetic models,…